The repair of garage doors is usually overlooked by homeowners while repairing or renovating the household. But being an entry point to your home, you garage door demands equal attention as other parts of you house. Even otherwise, at times of emergency, when you need to take your car out in a moment's notice, your garage door might stop functioning and jeopardize your needs. Hence it is important that you get your garage door repaired from time to time and keep it functioning at its best. And it is not necessary that every time you need to service your garage doors you need to call a professional. Most of the repairs can be taken care of by yourself. It is only the more complex and serious problems that require to be attended to by a professional garage door repair person.

The most commonly heard problem with garage doors is that of jammed or sticking doors, which might be due to a deformed channel or track in which the door moves or due to something obstructing the smooth passage of the door. This can be easily corrected. In case of a blockage, you can simply clean out the passage and in case of a dented channel, a hammer can do the job. Other problems might involve some defect in the circuit of the door opener, rusted door parts, worn out gears or a broken spring or cable. Some of these might require a professional and experienced garage door repair personnel to tend to, but most can be fixed by you if you have that mechanical bend of mind.

Now, garage doors can be of two types; the extension type or the torsion type. In case of a torsion type door, a torsion spring acts as the door operating mechanism while in the extension type door, an extendable spring is placed horizontally above the door and remains extended when the door is closed. At this time, the spring is under a very high tensile force. This means that there is a chance of the door snapping open if the spring gives out and fails to hold the door. Hence, for your safety, it is necessary to have a safety cable installed in your door spring, so that in case the door spring snaps, no one gets hurt. This safety cable runs through the centre of the extension type door spring and secures it to the adjacent wall so that even if the spring breaks, the door does not accidentally hurt anybody. But unfortunately, most homeowners underestimate the importance of these safety cables and don't get them installed. This is pretty dangerous as far as yours and your family members' safety is concerned. So, if you don't already have a safety cable installed in the spring of your extension type garage door, it is strongly recommended that you get one installed. So, the next time you call a garage door repair professional for any service of your garage door, make sure that you get the safety cable installed.